Pamela's Girls Tips From Auntie J - #1

Dear Mommy M & SanFran S:

As the younger Pamela's Girls, it is important that you learn these essential Pamela & Mommas tips. This is Tip # 1 with more to follow... as they come to me, that is....

When carrying food or treats to friends and family it is important how you do it. The vehicle of delivery is almost as important as what is being delivered.

Now, I don't think that Mommas necessarily put alot of thought and design into how she delivered food but simply used what was at hand in her clean, cozy kitchen to transport her yummy comestibles. But the sight of her woven peach basket coming through the door covered with a colorful cotton dish towel filled everyone in our house with leaping, ecstatic joy from Pamela to our fawn-colored chihuahua, Peanuts, who trotted along behind her in hopes of a future dropped morsel!

Recently when my dear friend, Donda, had a medical procedure, she requested a bowl of my homemade potato soup. When delivering the soup - along with some British tea biscuits and Celestial Seasonings Orange Mandarin tea - something in my DNA required that it travel in a Mommas Basket with appropriate coverings.

This method of transport works well for any food event:

• as noted here, the delivery of soup to a friend
• church potlucks (you will get as many compliments on your basket and tea towel as the dish inside, I promise!)
• a friend's baby shower
• homemade cookies and/or brownies taken to the office
• a picnic lunch in a breathtaking San Francisco park
• etc.

Worn tea towels and bright new dish towels all work every bit as well. You can carefully tuck little napkins in between dishes to protect them against bumping against each other or to keep cookies somewhat cushioned for the ride. And also.... use waxed paper on something... wrap a cookie... I don't know, but you just have to have it in there somewhere to really make a true Mommas experience.

So happy food giving is wished to all Pamela's Girls! Share the love we received from Sweet Pamela and Precious Mommas!

Love to my Sweet Pamela's Girls!